ROB FRUCHTMAN is an award-winning documentary director, producer
and editor. He won the Documentary Director award at the 2002 Sundance
Film Festival for Sister Helen, (co-directed with Rebecca Cammisa)
which aired on HBO in 2003, and has won three Emmys and several
nominations for his work with PBS and HBO. His last film was Trust
Me, a documentary for SHOWTIME, featuring Christian, Jewish and
Islamic boys at an interfaith camp in North Carolina. He recently
completed Samurai Sportsman, a 13-part series for the Outdoor Life
Network, which premiered in March, 2004. Mr. Fruchtman has circled
the globe to make documentaries and series, such as In Search of
China; Kronos, The Body Adorned; and On the Edge of Being: Doctors
with Cancer for PBS; The Last of the Incas for Showtime and Ancient
Splendors for Readers Digest/Disney Channel. For Reader's Digest,
he executive produced Nature's Great Events (co-produced with the
BBC), Incredible Journeys Around the World (three hours on PBS),
and films on Australia and China for RD's Global Television and
Video division. He has also made many programs featuring the arts,
including Dance New York (WNET), a profile of Elliot Feld and Paul
Taylor which won a NY Emmy; Iso Dance Theater (PBS), a dance special
with former Momix and Pilobolus dancers, recipient of five LA Emmys;
Kronos: Music of Our Time (PBS), a portrait of the Kronos Quartet,
with Philip Glass and John Cage; and The Creation of Omo (PBS),
a dance special with the San Francisco Ballet. Mr. Fruchtman began
his career as a dialogue and sound editor on feature films including
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Quiz Show, Blue Velvet, Backdraft,
Willow and many others, working with directors such as Robert Redford,
Ron Howard, Philip Kaufman and David Lynch.
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